Dominican Republic Demographic and Health Survey - 2013

Dominican Republic
Latin America & Caribbean

Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) are nationally representative household surveys that provide data for a wide range of monitoring and impact evaluation indicators in the areas of population, health, and nutrition.

Study Website

Adolescents: 10,000+

Sex:

Females and Males

Age Range:

15-19
20-24

Study Design:

Observational

Type of Data:

Cross-sectional

Time Period: 2013; 2007; 2002; 1999; 1996; 1991; 1986

Areas Covered: Nationally Representative

Investigators: Consejo Nacional de Población y Familia; Institute for Resource Development; Instituto de Estudios de Población y Desarrollo, PROFAMILIA; Oficina Nacional de Planificación (ONAPLAN); IRD/Macro International; Centro de Estudios Sociales y Demográficos (CESDEM); Asociación Dominicana por Bienestar de la Familia (PROFAMILIA); Macro International; Comisión Ejecutiva para la Reforma del Sector Salud (CERSS); Consejo Presidencial del SIDA (COPRESIDA)

Funders: USAID; Inter-American Development Bank; World Bank; UNICEF; Programa lntegrado de Salud en el Suroeste, Secretaría de Estado de Salud Pública y Asistencia Social (PRISA/SESPAS); Instituto Nacional de Formación Técnico Profesional (INFOTEP); Global Fund; U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC); U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)

Series:

Demographic and Health Surveys

Notes: Investigators/organizations vary across survey rounds. Not all funders provided funding for all survey rounds. Age range varies across survey rounds. Age range taken from most recent survey. Males are included in the 1999, 2002, 2007 and 2013 survey rounds only. Number of adolescents is summed across all survey rounds.

Topics

Demographic Characteristics - Urban and Rural;

Economics - Employment;

Education - Grade attainment/attendance, Learning;

Family/Household Structure;

Gender Attitudes/Beliefs - Endorsement of violence against women, Gender role beliefs;

Health Care Access and Utilization;

HIV/AIDS and STIs - Knowledge, Testing;

Marriage;

Migration and Mobility;

Physical Health - Nutrition, Self-reported health;

Reproductive Health - Family planning/contraception, Fertility, Sexual behavior;

Time Use;

Tobacco/Alcohol/Drug Use;

Violence - Emotional/psychological violence, Physical violence, Sexual violence;